PORDENONE - Massimo Recalcati will open, on September 16, with an awaited lesson on brotherhood, the 2020 edition of Pordenonelegge which will see on the closing day, September 20, the arrival of Susanna Tamaro with her new novel 'Una great love story '(Solferino).
Among the big names of the last day also the Premio Strega 2019 Antonio Scurati with the second chapter of the trilogy dedicated to Mussolini and the tragic years of fascism, 'M.
The man of providence '(Bompiani) and Nick Hornby in live streaming with his new novel' Just like you '(Guanda).
The highly anticipated Nobel Prize Olga Tokarczuk, the only foreign author in attendance, awarded the FriulAdria Prize "The story in a novel" 2020, in Pordenone with 'In the quiet of time' which returns to the bookstore for Bompiani.
Also present was the meeting with the computer scientist Christopher Wylie with 'The world according to physics' (Bollati Boringhieri) who will tell a preview of how he created and then destroyed Cambridge Analytica.
The Book Festival with the Authors inaugurates a special edition, of hope and resistance, after the lockdown, which will see over 250 Italian and foreign protagonists and will host, between direct streaming and live events, in the heart of the city and in 7 centers in the province , 120 meetings in five days, more than half available online.
Also the meeting with Recalcati, in Pordenone with the new 'The choice of Caino' (Einaudi), will be accessible to everyone in live streaming on the youtube channel and on the facebook page of pordenonelegge and will be repeated on Thursday 17 September at 10.00.
Among the protagonists of Pordenonelegge 2020, curated by Gian Mario Villalta, artistic director, Alberto Garlini and Valentina Gasparet, in connection with Julia Philips with the debut novel 'The land that disappears' (Marsilio), finalist at the National Book Award 2019, in which she investigates the communities of the former USSR in the far north-east of Russia from the point of view of women.
Also streaming are Marcela Serrano, Joseph Stiglitz, Delphine de Vigan, Julia Phillips, Amy Hempel, David Quammen and Michael Palin and the English journalist and essayist Tim Marshall with "The 10 maps that tell the world" (Garzanti).
Great space, as always, for poetry that will be a festival within the festival with, in addition to the many protagonists, three biographical documentaries dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Buffoni and Fabio Pusterla.
On the opening day, Alberto Bertoni will talk about the question of "making poetry" after the Shoah and there will be Nicola Crocetti, one of the most significant voices of poetry, interviewed by Daniele Piccini.
On the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Alberto Moravia, the author of 'Gli indifferenti' will be remembered by Gian Mario Villalta, Yari Selvetella, Lorenzo Pavolini and Maria Ida Gaeta, on the occasion of the reissue of his "Racconti 1927-1951" (Bompiani).
Many Italian authors in Pordenonelegge: Corrado Augias with his "Breviary for a confused present" (Einaudi), Andrea Spinelli who returns to Pordenone with "Il caminante. Walker, pilgrim and wayfarer", out for Ediciclo;
Gianrico Carofiglio with 'On kindness and courage.
Breviary of politics and other things '(Feltrinelli), Beppe Severgnini with' Neoitaliani.
A manifesto '(Rizzoli).
And then Francesco Piccolo, Paolo Giordano, Donatella Di Cesare, Mauro Corona, Veit Heinichen, Tullio Avoledo, Ilaria Tuti, Paolo Rumiz, Massimo Carlotto, Matteo Bussola, Loriano Macchiavelli, Antonio Forcellino, Annamaria Testa, Rita Dalla Chiesa, Marco Bianchi, Flavio Caroli, Damiano Carrara, Riccardo Bocca.
Among the novelties of this edition, the Pnlegge TV with a schedule of 65 meetings available on video, 6 direct videos a day, deferred and extra content, accessible in one click at the link https://www.pordenonelegge.it/tv.
Thanks to the collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the programming of the Pnlegge TV will be relaunched by the Italian Cultural Institutes in the world: from Abu Dhabi, Sao Paulo, Hamburg, Stockholm, Beirut, Munich, Rosario (Argentina), Santiago del Chile and Tokyo.
At the Festival also the first edition of the new Friuli Venezia Giulia Region Literary Prize awarded to Valerio Massimo Manfredi, and the preview of the Umberto Saba Poesia Prize born in Trieste.
Pordenonelegge per le Scuole will open to the use of classes from all over Italy, to celebrate the return to school, with an appointment on Pnlegge TV and Zoom.
